Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

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She wrote a fairly scholarly introduction to it, acknowledging colonial bias, etc, etc, and commenting on the content.

The width of cultures means that there are all styles of story - long, short, gore, spiritual, teaching tales and entertainment. All of the tales center around women, and the stories are organized into little sections, such as 'Clever Women', 'Mothers and Daughters' and of course 'Witches'. I think I'm just not a lover of short stories, I much prefer a long story that I can sink my teeth into, get more invested into the characters and something that is a bit more of a page turner. I have to admit I ignored the saying don't judge a book by its cover, But this book is so beautful I had to get it!To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Trasmiten lecciones de todo tipo desde mensajes feministas hasta temas familiares y relacionados con la salud mental. The book is a collection of stories from all over the world, all of which based around a female character.

A collection of folklore from around the world, tales of wise women, crafty witches and resourceful maidens… the woman-centric theme doesn��t intrude, just makes it a more cohesive collection than most fable anthologies. I could see the roots of Grimm’s Fairytales and Mother Goose in these stories, and there were several stories based around the Cinderella theme, Rumpelstiltskin and elements of Snow White.The illustrations in this book are beautiful and sinister as well; and this is, overall, a stunning and remarkable collection of fairy-tales. In this book you get the real thing from many countries and traditions but they all contain ancient wisdom. However even though I do love fairy tales I have found this to be quite a slog, it has taken me ages to finish and it's only because I don't like to give up on a book that I managed to complete it. Lo tenía todo para gustarme, así que tardé poco en hacerme con él y por fin le he hecho hueco para leerlo.